Special Subject Collections

This archive contains a wealth of material displaying the use of Marxism in the Arts. There are six major sub-archives to this section: Literary Criticism, Literature (including sub archives of women’s, children’s literature), Painting (including Socialist Realism & Mexican Muralists), Satire, Music (including Soviet & Spanish Civil War songs), and Film

This archive contains a collection of writers, periodicals and bulletins that discuss and debate all aspects of homosexuality and the repression & liberation of Lesbians, Bisexuals, Gays, Transgenders and Queers .

Index to the works of Marxists on precapitalist economic formations, the peasantry, “permanent revolution”, “combined and uneven development”, ancient society and “primitive communism”, and the problem of the relation of the peasantry to the proletarian revolution.

This section holds about 20 reference works of “classics” on the subject of political economy, the principle writings of Marx on the subject spanning forty years, followed by a collection of materials that critique, analyse, and explain Marx’s work on the subject. Lastly, a reference is given to basic economic terms available in the Encyclopedia.

A collection of articles by Marxist and reference writers on Natural Science. It includes a variety of writers including Marx, Engels, Lenin, Haldane, Bernal, as well as a subject section on Lysenkoism.

The main section of this subject index are works of Marxist Psychologists whose writings were influenced by Marxism. This section also links to psychologists in the reference section who offer an important context to the ideas taken up by the Marxist Psychologists.

This expansive archive contains more than 70 authors writing about both women’s issues and Marxism. The archive contains writings that are significant to Marxism by women, for whom we do not yet have sufficient works trancribed to warrant their own writer’s archive.

Introductory Selections

Introductory readings for those who are beginning to learn Marxism. Various subject areas, such as “What is capitalism?” to “Was the Soviet Union Socialist?”, are presented by authors with differing views.

Famous quotes from Hegel, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao and other communists with links to the context on the Marxists Internet Archive. The only source on the internet of genuine, sourced Marxist quotations.

In addition, you get a randomly selected “Quote-of-the-Day” from one of the collections, for you to ponder.

The Marxist Humanists, mostly intellectuals and writers, who reacted against the simplistic and objectivist Marxism of the Stalinist governments of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, from the 1960s in particular.

The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), is a complete documentation of the history and ideas of the international Trotskyist movement, centering on Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) and continuing to this day, with historical documents on thousands of individuals and hundreds of groups and publications.

Utopian visions from Plato’s Republic to Charles Fourier’s Phalanstery, H.G. Wells’s Modern Utopia and Robert Owen’s New Lanark, actually established in Scotland, and twentieth century intentional communities.

Speeches, documents and photographs from the period of revolutionary upheaval following the end of World War I in Germany together with contemporary analysis and more recent histories of the period when Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered, and Soviet governments set up in parts of Germany.

This section is a central resource for documents focusing on the labor history origins of May Day as a workers’ holiday. It includes material from the eight-hour movement, the Haymarket Tragedy, International May Day, as well as recollections, music, literature and images.